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Shell stops Arctic drilling ‘for the foreseeable future’

NEWS: After spending US$7 billion on exploration in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, company finds insufficient oil to continue controversial venture

NEWS: Huge levels of subsidies still flowing to oil, gas and coal sector suggest governments not taking climate threat to heart

NEWS: Controversial plans to drill in Arctic said to be last straw for fellow members of influential European climate grouping

NEWS: Nine companies including Glencore, Rio Tinto and BP targeted over membership of Brussels trade body Business Europe

NEWS: Lord Browne-led panel to present fossil fuel industry with set of plans in November on how it can contribute to UN climate deal

NEWS: Plans to tackle potent greenhouse gas emissions uploaded to global portal as oil industry takes first steps towards Paris deal

NEWS: Former BP boss Lord Browne says high cost, environmentally sensitive project could harm Shell’s reputation

ANALYSIS: Shell and BG are leading calls for an ambitious global pact in Paris, but it’s still unclear how they will help lubricate talks

ANALYSIS: As low oil prices fail to bankrupt US oil, could climate action help Middle Eastern petropower rebalance its economy?

NEWS: Fossil fuel giant to make significant break with US lobbying organisation accused of obstructing low carbon policies

NEWS: High cost, high carbon source of oil is hit by low oil prices, analysts say, with 5.6bn barrels worth of projects shelved

NEWS: Coalition of top oil and gas producers to “announce next steps” ahead of critical UN climate summit

NEWS: Lack of diversity on boards makes US oil majors particularly liable to ignore carbon risk, find Oxford University researchers

NEWS: Oil giant created its own local news outlet in 2014, determined to have its voice heard at home to key refinery

NEWS: Exxon considered climate change risks as early as 1981, email by ex-employee reveals, yet joined efforts to mislead the public

ANALYSIS: As the communist island and the US restore relations, there are opportunities for clean power and offshore oil

NEWS: Investment in infrastructure to liquefy gas for the global market won’t pay off if warming is held to 2C, say analysts

NEWS: Canadian province’s step to strengthen regulation of oil patch more symbolic than effective in hitting emissions target

NEWS: Investing in fossil fuel infrastructure undermines the shift to a low carbon economy, researchers warn – and it’s not just coal

ANALYSIS: Dependent on petrol exports, the South American country is fraught with contradictions as it resists overhaul of fossil fuels